New toons. Finally.

I am sorry I have been so slow with updating lately. I have added two things to my already crowded life and I haven’t yet found the balance. One is homeschooling, and the other is regular exercise. Our computer problems continue, but I have decided to let them be for now. Our internet tends to be up all day and early evening. Around 8:30 it goes down for the night. I have no idea why. I used to spend every night on the web but this has forced me to stop and I like it. I’m getting more sleep and spending more time with my family. The only downside is that I cannot update my site at night anymore and that’s when I get most of my best work done.

What happens is that my kid is working on the computer in the morning and by the time I have time to upload my toon I think, well it’s late so I might as well just wait and put it up with tonights toon later. Until I finally realized that I had FOUR to put up. From now on I’m going to try and just upload in the mornings no matter how late it is.

Todays toons I really like (which means that most likely no one else will!) The first is just silly and the second one makes me grin. Of course Manny has managed to lose all of his weight painlessly and quickly. Of COURSE he has. In my own life, I am trying to find out why I have been working my butt off only to look back and find it stubbornly still attached. Getting older sucks.

The third cartoon is about names, which I am really interested in. I was the kid who checked out baby name books from the library when I was a child and had all of my kids names picked out when I was a teenager. Luckily for my kids I didn’t end up USING any of those names. The world really doesn’t need any more Calliopes or Shakiras, y’know? (My apologies to any Calliope’s or Shakira’s out there reading this blog).

The last toon is the way I feel about Obama. Even if he is the most fabulous president ever, he still might be seen as a failure because he is inheriting soooo many problems. Be careful what you wish for… On a brighter note, Bush is out of here in a few more days! It’s like Christmas all over again!

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I loved today’s strips!
Especially the names one. I remember daydreaming about my kids names… I’m glad I’ve grown since then. I would’ve named a girl “Galadriel” and my sons were going to be Meriadoc and Peregrin, or Merlin. And my eldest shudders when he realizes how narrowly he escaped being named “Dante Magnus.”

HAHAHA I LOVE the facial expression on Eve in the last block of the 2nd strip!!! She looks like she’s gonna shove those cookies somewhere Manny might not like. My friend Melinda would say, “I hate Manny.” HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

My ex husband wanted to name our daughter (my only daughter), “Misty Lynn”. Uh, NO. So, I sent him out to get me a cheeseburger. As soon as he left, I called for the paperwork. I named our daughter Christina Noel; signed and legal. He got back with my cheeseburger and I introduced him to his daughter, Christina. HA! She thanks me to this day!

Why that name? She was due on Christmas Day (but came three weeks early) so that’s the name I picked when I was pregnant.

Today’s cartoons were great. I loved the “The hills have thighs” joke, though I took it as Manny making fun of Eve.
When I read the second strip, I felt that same pain and frustration that Eve has on her face when Manny tells her that he wants to put a few pounds BACK ON!
As for the name strip, I cursed my oldest son, though not many people can understand it until I bring it up to them. My favorite group way back when was Duran Duran, and I had a pact with some friends that we would name our firstborn boys after members of the group. My son’s name is Nicholas Andrew, after Nick Rhodes and Andy Taylor. My friends did not live up to the pact, but my husband made sure he had a say in the other names.

I too, am counting down the days to when Obama takes office. I know that he has a hard road ahead of him, but I look at him like FDR. I know that he can get our country situated; I just hope that it does not take a war to get us out of this mess!

Those names are most definitley “Lord of the Ringy!” LotR is my favorite book, has been sice I first read it…oooooh so long ago! The kids are pretty happy w/ their names, but my eldest sometimes gets miffed because the shortened form of his name can be a girl or a boy name.